Rebuilding an 11 metre yacht. Nice work. Have a bunch of photos yet to organise.
Yesterday I planed three sticks of mahogany, 50mm wide with 45 degree edges both sides.. a parallelogram. This morning I sanded the face of each smooth! I also routed two manhole/skylights in the yacht and made some coloured epoxy to fill holes and join some timber.
Nice job today, run a 32mm by 450mm by about 1.2m long mahogany through the thickness planer, cut a couple of strips to get the grain running in the right direction (cross-ways) and then bookmatch a join and stick it with the coloured epoxy. Tomorrow I have to shape it to match an old worn piece of timber on the boat. Imagine an old chopping board, with a scalloped section in the middle the roughly rakes from front to back getting deeper as it does.. then imagine the fun i'm going to have making a piece to perfectly match the scalloped section so we can put a nice flat grain piece of timber over it like a veneer!!
Challenging though fun. I come home dusty most days and relish a good hot shower.
Well, tomorrow is Saturday and I'm going to work simply because Sarah is working and I have the option. Nice workshop.. see the pics.. on facebook.. will post a link here soon for the album.
Suggestions welcome for what I might make in my spare time.. a nice desk, coffee table and a candle holder - 8 glass sides, nice wood top edge plus wooden base.. any other ideas??
Oh, and you have to learn fast here.. boat people generally don't like joiner's - they tend to make square things and boat are anything but square! Interestingly enough a handwerker is more valued than a joiner here.. an eye for detailing car panels comes in handy and pays better than the qualified joiner in this business...Mad Ridiculous but that's how it is! Thanks for the tips, Gus! Someday I may get around to restoring an XB panel van!! :)
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